Fic: This Town in the Rain

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Title: This Town in the Rain
Author: Appomattoxco
Summary: A slice of time in happy AU where Spike/Buffy and Giles/Anya are established couples.
Rating: T Lots of innuendo but not much else.
Authors note: Giles’ opinion of US vs. UK weather comes from something an English tourist told me. When Stephen Fry said almost the same thing on a show, I thought I'd give the lines to Giles.

Spike roared, and was about to twist the neck the of Chaos demon when he lost his grip. When he tried to pursue the slimy antlered demon Spike’s feet slid out from under him. His only satisfaction was that Buffy couldn’t laugh at him because the same thing had happened to her with her own opponent. After three days of rain, patrolling with the Slayer was like playing rugby in a mud pit.

“I hope you end up strapped to the hood of a pickup!” Buffy shouted after the two fleeing demons.( Read more... )